Movies: Prostitution

A woman recounts her life in Los Angeles dealing in cocaine & prostitution....

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer an insider’s view into the differences between women and men in the sex industry....

The hotel Gondolín is home to some 30 transvestites who practice prostitution as the only option to survive in a society that excludes them....

Julia, 28, lives a double life as Escort and tells her daughter Lilli, 10, that she works as a secret agent....

A group of prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro who fight to obtain rights and reduce stigma, create a clothing label that quickly invades Brazilian fashion shows. Poster photo by Daniela Pinheiro....

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Putta (Whore) follows the story of three prostitutes living in the town of Foz do Iguaçu, on the triple border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The film traverses the complexities of each of the three prostitutes personal lives’–from transexua...

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated relationship between director Lena Macdonald and her mother, who was once a filmmaker herself, but ende...

Film maker Dennis O'Rourke documents the day to day life of Aoi, a Thai prostitute through interviews with her and her family as well as taking us through some of the tourist frequented bars and night clubs....

After the death of his wife, a taxi driver, Hoon, struggles to provide for himself and his daughter, Mei, during the COVID-19 pandemic. He chooses to turn his taxi into a mobile brothel so he can give his daughter a better life. One life-changing mom...

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In her room 15 year old "Hannah" decides to start selling sex. She puts up an ad and offers her services as an escort. In her diary Hanna describes how she, over the course of an autumn sells sex in Stockholm. Hanna's first sex buyers ask no questio...

This documentary feature is an in-depth exploration of the world of prostitution. Its characters include pimps, transsexuals, girls/women, boys, and johns. Shot in Montreal in the course of a year, the individual stories of these people cut across ea...

Buy Bye Beauty is a 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender. The film is about the way Latvian sex industry and its being fueled by businessmen and sex tourists from Sweden visiting Riga. The film was shot in Ri...

A choral story of women who worked as prostitutes and the feminist debate on abolitionism and regulation, through their life stories, desires and convictions....

Documentary about older female prostitutes...

An inside look at the gritty streets of Brazil....

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Chasing Fireflies focuses on the narratives of young female children who were victimized by human trafficking and their eventual captivity to child prostitution....

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